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Politics1NC PoliticsThe vast majority of Americans support ocean exploration – the public views the condition of seas as innately connected with humanity’s wellbeing Nichols et al. 3 Reid Nichols – President of the Marine Information Resources Corporation with four decades of military, commercial, and research experience in oceanographic fields, M.S. in Physical Oceanography from North Carolina State University, former oceanographer for NOAA; David Porter – Principal Senior Staff Oceanographer for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Ocean Remote Sensing Group and Senior Physical Oceanographer for MIRC etc. (“Recent Advances and Issues in Oceanography”, June 30 2003, pgs. 197-198, http://books.google.com/books?id=IjxpKwHgbqkC&dq)//EO Public opinion polls indicate that Americans care strongly about the ocean and are prepared to support ocean exploration over space ex-ploration. According to a recent survey, eighty percent say that the condition of the ocean is a matter of personal importance. A full 55 percent give priority to funding ocean exploration over space explo-ration. The survey participants, nearly three quarters (72 percent), also see the health of the ocean as intimately connected to the future well-being of humankind. The Future Ocean exploration gives mankind a sense of human progress and heritage. It provides the experience and knowledge necessary to undertake stewardship of the occan and its resources, and thus sets a course for future generations to navigate. What lies ahead is still unknown. Whatever it is, however, will be influenced by what is found through tomorrow's exploration—and will likely be different from today's predictions0021 AT: CASEBiofuels Advantagecyberattack turnAlgae biofuel development leads to Chinese cyberattacks to steal secrets – turns science leadership and tech developmentMufson 14 (Steven, “Why were this company’s computers attacked millions of times this year? Algae.”, Washington Post, 7/12/14, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-were-this-companys-computers-attacked-millions-of-times-this-year-algae/2014/07/10/ac4df98c-f59a-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html) About 16 months ago, a Florida-based biofuel company called Algenol noticed that its Internet service was slowing down. In checking that out, Jack Voth, Algenofs information technology chief, stumbled on something odd: a telnet connection to its videoconference camera from an Internet Protocol address in China, a country where Algenol has never sought to do business. That was only the beginning. Ever since, Algenol has been on high alert for what Voth describes as “nefarious activity;” the company estimates that hackers have attempted to break into its computers 39 million times in four months this year, triple the level of a year earlier. The most serious of these were more than 63,000 attempts that came directly from China, including 6,653 attempts over 15 months from IP addresses and servers that Algenol says are the same as the Peoples’ Liberation Army addresses identified in a public report by Mandiant, a leading computer security firm. Another Internet trail led Algenol to Aliyun Computing, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba, one of the most powerful online commerce and retail giants in China. Interest in the company is running high because it is set to launch what may turn out to be the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history. Alibaba says Algenol mischaracterized ordinary Internet traffic as attacks. What makes a small company in Florida so interesting to cyberspies? Algae. It’s not usually the stuff of trade secrets, but Algenol, a company with about 125 employees, is developing technology that converts algae biomass into transportation fuels, including biodiesel and gasoline — all while consuming the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rather than producing it. Algenofs work would interest anyone who wants to curb climate change. As the Chinese government tries to limit the hazardous pollution that has upset its citizens, it has set out to increase biofuel production tenfold. That might be enough incentive for Chinese cyberspies. “This is not at all unusual. China has made the decision to focus on alternative energy as a topic of industrial espionage,” said James Andrew Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said the Chinese government and state-owned enterprises have targeted trade secrets for soap, house paint and wooden furniture. “It doesn’t have to be about national security,” Lewis said. Algenol isn’t alone in its battle against Chinese computer attacks. In May, the Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese military on charges of hacking into computers and stealing trade secrets from leading steel, nuclear-power and solar-power firms. China denied the charges. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that they were “purely ungrounded and absurd,” adding that the United States had “fabricated facts” in the indictment. Algenol chief executive Paul Woods says little has changed following the indictments and expressed frustration about the rising tide of attacks. Hacking attacks come from many countries, he says, but most are efforts to steal credit-card information. Chinese hackers, by contrast, tend to target trade secrets and unique technology. “What are you going to do? Sue them in a Chinese court? You have no recourse,” said Woods, adding that the Justice Department indictments would not touch the alleged culprits or change behavior and were “a joke.” Algenol, which hasn’t built a large-scale plant, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on technology to protect its computers, but the volume of attacks — not only from China, but also from the United States, Germany, Russia and Taiwan — has made it impossible to track all the sources and log complaints with them. China will cyberattack algae development efforts – they’re desperate for new energy sourcesMufson 14 (Steven, “Why were this company’s computers attacked millions of times this year? Algae.”, Washington Post, 7/12/14, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-were-this-companys-computers-attacked-millions-of-times-this-year-algae/2014/07/10/ac4df98c-f59a-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html) China has made the search for commercial biofuels a priority. “With rapid economic development, energy consumption in China has tripled in the past 20 years,” wrote a group of six Chinese biochemical engineers, four of whom work at the Institute of Process Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “The search for new green energy as substitutes for nonrenewable energy resources has become an urgent task,” they wrote in an overview of existing literature in the October 2011 issue of Applied Energy, a publication of the Dutch giant Elseviers. Internet security experts say that some Chinese individuals or entities are trying to take a short cut to acquiring biofuel technology, including converting algae to fuel. In tracing the source of the attacks on Algenol, Voth has looked to a public report by Mandiant, a reputable Alexandria-based Internet security firm. The firm traced “advanced persistent threats” to a cyber-espionage unit of the People’s Liberation Army — the second bureau of the general staff’s third department. Voth said the IP addresses and servers he tracked were the same as the ones in the Mandiant report. Jen Weedon, manager of threat intelligence at FireEye, which acquired Mandiant in December, said FireEye had identified 25 Chinese groups engaged in cyber-espionage. “We’ve seen six of those 25 pursue companies involved in biofuels,” she said, all of them tied to intelligence agencies, the military, other parts of the government or government contractors. “The biofuels industry fits squarely in what they call strategic emerging industries.” Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2014 2014 -> For want of a nail 2014 -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 2014 -> Ihbb asian Championships 2014 middle school bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> Ihbb european Championships 2014 Bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> International History Bee and Bowl 2013-14 Asian Division Question Set Bowl Round Six 2014 -> United states patent and trademark office 2014 -> Coffs harbour eisteddfod vocal syllabus 2014 -> Listen News Programs Schedule pledge now 2014 -> Slow club announce third album complete surrender Download 0.84 Mb. 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